[Ontology-editors] linking GO terms to docs

[Chris Mungall]

Who is this message aimed at? End-users, annotators, both? How are  
people meant to react to this information?

I seriously doubt that tools implementors will take the time write ad- 
hoc one-off code to propagate this one particular comment down the  
hierarchy.

If this is important, then why not take the low-tech approach and (1)  
email go-friends and (2) propagate the comment down ourselves and  
manually remove individual comments as we fix things.

(1) is the most effective at reaching people as not all browsers  
necessarily show comments, and when they do it's only in certain  
contexts. You could be browsing the tree or looking at term enrichment  
results and never see this.

If this kind of thing is to become common then we should figure out a  
curation status tag in obo, have defined semantics in terms of how it  
propagates up and down, etc

On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The discussion to start overhauling the signaling terms is just  
> starting to get going now and we would like to make sure all  
> annotators are aware of this. Emily has suggested that we might put  
> a pointer to the signaling wiki page into the comment field of the  
> signal transduction terms to alert users to its existence. She says  
> that this comment could then be cascaded down to the child terms by  
> the various browser tools.
>
> If no one has any objections I will add a comment to signal  
> transduction on Friday and it will say:
>
> "The signaling terms in GO are currently being overhauled. If you  
> would like to read about the discussions, or contribute your ideas  
> or thoughts please visit http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Signaling 
> ."
>
> I will also improve that page on the wiki so it is clear to people  
> where to go to read about discussions and contribute ideas.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jen
>
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